I'm a big fan of Dieter Rams, so much so that I have even dedicated an entire article here at Design Sojourn to his design philosophy. Therefore, I was quite excited to watch this
Bradley Derry (at Fuel Your Product Design) ran a really nice interview with Chris Bangle on what makes a good design leader. It is really good to hear from Chris, a friend of Design Sojourn, who has been somewhat quiet of late. <iframe src="http://player.vimeo.com/video/24080982?title=0&byline=0&portrait=0" width="520"
One of the problems of Design Thinking is that it has inherited some of the bad habits of the Business mindset. In particular the need for repeatability and for research data to help justify any design decision the organization makes. Frog Design's Ben McAllister
You might have heard that the Google Chromebook will be launched on June 15 this year. I'm rather excited but also pretty disappointed. If you watch the video above you can see the huge potential of an
What a nice way to look at design constraints. The best designers like VW's head of design Klaus Bischoff (whom I have quoted below), learn to work with constraints and even excel with them.
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It is commonly known that Apple does not use user-centered research to help the Business determine what they should create or do next. They go one better. They build "playing fields" wide enough for people to do as they please.
Apple has recognized what
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This has to be my favorite moment of Steve Jobs' recent iPad 2 keynote at Apple's special event on the 2nd of March 2011. I
Check out the Samsung Series 9, a 13.3" Macbook Air “fighter” that boasts a thinner and lighter chassis, and a more up to date processor. (Samsung’s i5 vs. MBA’s Core 2 Duo.)
It should be just
I recently spoke to a person who has successfully started to integrated design thinking into his organization. He re-emphasized the word “started” because he feels his organization is still making the journey. Even so, his organization is already starting to see the benefits
Paula Antonelli indirectly answers the question "What makes good design?” by sharing some of MoMa's selection criteria.
Yet another popular online publication link baits the entire design industry by revisiting the whole "User Centered Innovation is not really innovation" debate. I mean, did we not discussed this whole "User Centered Innovation is Dead" thing more than a year ago (in
If you don’t take a risk then how are you going to make something really beautiful, that hasn’t been seen before? ~ Francis Ford Coppola
What a roller coaster ride it was in 2010? Just as we thought we were getting out the global economic crisis started in 2009 by the Lehman Brothers crash, we were dropped right into a
At the end of October 2008, I briefly suggested for designers to work with the business to make fewer products and focus their strategies during the recession. Here is a quote from HBR that sums-up this strategy:
Recent evidence suggests that the paradigm of
Let the design team be the design experts. Your job is to be the business expert. Ask them how their design solutions meet your business goals. If you trust your design team, and they can explain how their recommendations map to those goals, you’re fine.
A cool video compilation of design quotes from design luminaries as well as the clients of interaction design consultancy Vostok. If only we all had clients like Vostok's
Dmitry Fadeyev on Google's decision to remove the “http://” portion of the URL in Chrome’s address bar. But see, this is one of those things that just doesn’t matter. Design isn’t about cutting waste—that’s too easy. Waste is something that has no value, so identifying and
You know the kind of products I'm talking about.
The type of product that contains design elements (like that speaker grill) that you spent the last 7 years as a designer
This awesome infographic (after the jump below), created by the team at Focus, predicts that Tablets (iPad et al.) will be the future of computing. According to the data, 14% of online shoppers intent to purchase an iPad in the next five months.
I have always maintained that Design and Marketing go hand in hand. Any designer looking to become more business savvy can get quite far if he or she starts with some marketing knowledge. Mike Funk writes:
Marketing is a framework for the organized delivery